Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

by a childrens police. Its also stated that for special provision for children in the juvenile care act that parents/guardian or lawyers should be informed of any procedures involving children as far as possible and a parent/guardian or social welfare worker must be present. Based on the way the juvenile court in New Orleans the same rules apply, its mandatory that a parent is present when the juvenile is in court when decisions are being made, however if a parent is not present the judge will…

of a contract, lawful consideration, competent parties, and lawful purposes. Each of these elements must be present to be considered a contract. First, contracts must be entered into for lawful purposes. That is they may not run afoul of state/federal laws or public policy. For example, a contract for distribution of liquor to minors is not binding as the purpose of the contract is illegal. Next, for offer and acceptance to be present, there must be a definite clearly stated offer to…

protect the minorities from it. A survey was asked, the responses where “only people who were well informed about issues should be allowed to vote in election in which questions relating to tax-supported undertaking”. (1st author etal.#152) Majority rules over minorities when they agree on individuals who pay taxes should be allowed to vote on electoral…

1. A Torts are civil law suits; we differ between four torts of privacy. False light describes the act of making a person seem in the public eye like somebody they are not. You can do that by giving out false information about this person for example. There are several states that don’t allow false light suits, simply because they are hard to prove. Appropriation is another tort of privacy and describes the use of a person’s name to advertise something, without having the person’s permission.…

foremost an executive function, Lincoln then took a series of unprecedented actions that may not have been strictly legal in the absence of congressional action or oversight, but were in Lincoln’s mind a public necessity (McGovern 49). He repressed civil liberties during the war and otherwise. In Inauguration Day, Lincoln addressed to the crowd of thirty thousand people for his speech which he spent weeks in preparing it. The speech was his best chance, and his first as president, to set forth…

for a person’s freedom of speech, religion, and press. It arranges rules for due process of law and reserves all power not substituted to the Federal Government, to the people or the states, but imagine if the government stops granting you those rights, striping them away from you. “Zeitoun” by Dave Egger, explains how Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a man who helped others in Hurricane Katrina was wrongly accused and did not receive the civil rights he was entitled to. During Hurricane Katrina, there was…

feeling by taking their issues out on other peers to make themselves feel tough. Children should not be afraid to attend school based on what they look like or how they are dressed but only to receive a good education. Franken states, “our nation’s civil rights law…

attractive features and procedures at the cost of remarkable decreased health. “Fat oppression is a weapon that targets people of size, but hurts everyone. It promotes the belief that if we are able to be worthy of happiness and respect, our bodies must meet a set of cookie-cutter criteria,” states Sondra Solovay and Galadriel Mozee (64). Solovay effectively furthers the idea of how a healthy and “great” standard of life is only achieved through the most perfect set of rules and guidelines. It…

Gun control, refers to the laws that restrict the possession and usage of guns, has proven to have a drastic effect on the world. Due to weak gun control laws, there has been an acceptable amount of mass shootings, suicides, or vaguely: deaths. Many questions regarding who should be allowed to own, use and manufacture firearms have arised, creating a controversial and politically divisive debate. Gun control laws are vital to the welfare of the United States because it will reduce gun violence,…

plaintiff can prove that an employer’s reasons are in fact pretext for discrimination using “the sheer weight of the circumstantial evidence of discrimination.” Gover, 284 F. Supp. 2d 858, 864. Considering the court in Gover was going to apply this rule when considering the statements, had those statements been about the challenged conduct and been made by individuals who could affect the decision-making of the challenged conduct, they would have been sufficient as circumstantial evidence to…